Chapter Nine
"Let me get this straight. You knew this would happen?"
"Lucifer-"
"You knew this would happen?!"
"Be calm."
"Be calm? You expect me be fucking calm?! Why did you allow that fool to mingle with your favorite pet project if you knew he was going to go rogue?"
"It is all part of the plan."
"Oh, the plan. The ineffable plan! Plan for what? To possibly end all of creation? To skip right over the apocalypse and rapture? What? Didn't think any of that was 'Need to know'?!"
Silence.
"This is the reason I rebelled in the first place." The words are quiet, almost regretful, and full of bitterness.
"Not the only reason."
A pause. A sigh. Admittance. "No, not the only reason. But one of them. This kind of bullshit." Another pause. "It's funny. The only time you've ever been truthful to me was after I fell." The tone implied this was the furthest thing from being humorous.
"…You defied me, Lucifer, and you paid a price."
"I don't regret what I did."
"I do not expect you too. But I wish it with all my being."
"Thanks, Dad, for being so understanding. Father of the year award right there. You can come to Hell. Or at least send a damn fruit basket once in a while."